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and what you thought you came for Is only a shell, a husk of meaning
Let it begin, this new decade
Fluid world of perception and conception, of real virtuality and virtual reality
of Modern Times
2020
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she leaves only good wishes behind
Last season's fruit is eaten
And the fullfed beast shall kick the empty pail.
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
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belongs as much to the heart as to the head
All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all does not last forever does it? There is summer, too, and spring, and though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, that summer, but they do, and always.
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2014 no slow motion, no repeat
Das Jahr vergeht in Monatsraten.
Es ist schon wieder fast vorbei.
Und was man tut, sind selten Taten.
Das, was man tut, ist Tuerei.
Erich Kästner, Herbst auf der ganzen Linie
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2012 - with love & squalor
Oysters build their houses out of their lives.
Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Where will I go to, with you by my side?
2012 may give us an answer.
Leave the shell but keep the pearl.
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2011 - dedicated to F.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, The Road not taken
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new year, new decade
2010
Get up early in the morning as usual, take a really long walk through the snowy, silent Teutoburg Forest.
May the new year be better than the last year, may the new decade be as good as the last one.
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2009 - a room with a view
Something lost, something found, something hidden ...
Few friends I lost through dead or the tides of life.
Some relatives I regained last winter, after decades. A very special man, my cousin, whom I met for the first time in my life and my 'second family', the parents of a friend from childhood, which supported me on my way with their open minds. ( Read more... ) -
2007 - 2008
The résumé of 2007?
Quote an old Matt Johnson song
I'm just a slow emotion replay of somebody I used to be.
Until the end of august. Then I started a new life, partly my old life before 1999.
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